Adjustable collar band



Dec. 4, "1934. w. RUBINSTEIN ADJUSTABLE COLLAR BAND Filed Aug. 24, 1934 Patented Dec. 4, 1934 PATENT OFFICE 1,983,309 ADJUSTABLE COLLAR BAND Wilton Rubinstein, Clayton, Mo.

Application August 24,

Claims.

This invention relates to adjustable collar bands, and has special reference to adjustable collar bands for shirts and similar garments; and an object of the invention is to provide a shirt 5 with an improved collar band having more than one buttonhole in at least one end portion thereof, a button permanently attached to the opposite end portion of the collar band, and improved means attached. to the lining that is confined between the inner and outer wall plies of the collar band and cooperating therewith to prevent the collar band from being distorted when the collar band is buttoned and worn.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved adjustable collar band for shirts having means embodied therein for holding the collar band in proper form and preventing distortion of the collar band irrespective of the adjustment of the collar band while being worn.

Other objects will appear from the following description, reference being made to the annexed drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an attached shirt collar and band embodying the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view with parts broken away illustrating some of the more important features of the invention.

Fig. 3 is a greatly enlarged view illustrating the permanently attached button, a portion of the collar band lining, and the device attached to said lining and cooperating therewith to prevent distortion of the collar band.

Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the opposite end of the collar band having a plurality of buttonholes through the collar band and the device embodied therein preventing the collar band from being distorted when worn.

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view on the line 55 of Fi 2.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

This invention is shown embodied in a shirt in which the collar 1 is permanently attached to the collar band, which is in permanent connection with the shirt body 2.

The shirt is constructed so as to open at the front and has a marginal portion 3 formed with buttonholes 4 and arranged to overlap the margin 5 so that the buttons 6 may be engaged in and disengaged from the buttonholes 4.

The collar band comprises an inner ply '7, an outer ply 8 and a lining 9 interposed between said inner and outer plies. 'The upper edge of the collar 1 extends between the inner and outer plies '7 and 8 of the collar band, and a line of 1934, Serial No. 741,352

stitching 10 passes through the plies 7 and 8, the upper marginal edge of the lining 9 and the upper edge of the collar 1 and attaches these parts together. The upper edge of the shirt body 2 around the neck opening extends between the plies 7 and 8, and a line of stitching 11 passes through the inner and outer plies 7 and 8, the lower marginal edge of the lining 9 and the shirt body 2 and attaches the band and the shirt body together.

As shown, the inner ply '7 is a woven fabric having longitudinal threads 12 running approximately parallel with the upper and lower edges of the collar band, and transverse threads 13 extending vertically across and at right angles to the threads 12. Similarly, the ply 8 is of woven fabric having longitudinal threads 14 and transverse threads 15 extending approximately parallel with the threads 12 and 13, respectively. Likewise, the lining 9 is of woven fabric having longitudinal threads 16 and vertical transverse threads 17 approximately parallel with the threads 12 and 13, respectively, of the inner ply and the threads 14 and 15, respectively, of the outer ply of the collar band.

In adjustable collar bands thus constructed wherein one end of the adjustable portion of the collar band is provided with a plurality of buttonholes and the other end of the collar band with an attached button, difficulties in preventing distortion of the collar band have arisen. The present invention comprises means for preventing such distortion and yet permitting the plurality of buttonholes to be formed in the desired relationship for engagement with the button attached to the opposite end of the collar band. As shown, a section of textile material having its warp threads 18 and its woof threads 19 extending diagonally or obliquely across the threads of the inner and outer plies and the lining of the collar band, is attached to said lining by stitches 20 adjacent to one end of the collar band. A plurality of inclined buttonholes 21 are cut through the inner and outer plies and the lining of the iii or parts '7, 8 and 9 and the reinforcing device composed of the threads 18 and 19.

A similar reinforcing device is embodied in the opposite end of the collar band and is composed of warp threads 23 and woof threads 24 extending obliquely with respect to the vertical and longitudinal threads forming the inner and outer plies and the lining of the collar band. This reinforcing device is attached to the lining by stitching 25, preferably on the side of the lining that is toward the inner ply 7 of the collar band. A button. 26 is permanently attached to this end of the collar band by attaching threads 27 passing through the usual holes provided therefor and through all of the plies at this end of the collar band comprising the plies 7, 8 and 9 and the reinforcing device composed of the threads 23 and 24. The button 26 is in line with the corn ters of the inclined buttcnholes 21, all of which are spaced approximately equidistantfrom the lower marginal edge of the collar band and ap-- proximately midway of the width thereof.

I have found that this construction overcomes the serious objections heretofore encountered and effectively prevents distortion of thecollar band irrespective of which of the buttonholes 21 the button engages. The invention constitutes a sim plified solution of a problem that has caused considerable difliculty and loss the manufacture of shirts equipped with these adjustable collar bands. The invention may be embodied in the collar bands at comparatively low cost.

I do not restrict myself unessentially, but what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:-

1. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band composed of inner and outer plies and an interposed lining all of textile fabric having longitudinal threads extending approximately parallel with the lower edge of the collar band and havtransverse threads extending vertically across the collar band, and a section of textile fabric attached to said lining and having the warp and woof threads thereof inclined and extending obliquely across said longitudinal and transverse threads adjacent to one end of the collar band, said one end of the collar band having buttonholes cut through said inner and outer plies and said lining obliquely across said longitudinal and vertical threads and cut through said section parallel with the warp threads thereof.

2. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band composed of inner and outer plies and an interposed lining all of textile fabric having longitudinal threads extending approximately parallel with the lower edge of the collar band and having transverse threads extending vertically across the collar band, a section of textile fabric attached to said lining and having the warp and woof threads thereof inclined and extending obliquely across said longitudinal and transverse threads adjacent to one end of the collar band, said one end of the collar band having buttonholes cut through said inner and outer plies and said lining obliquely across said longitudinal and vertical threads and cut through said section parallel with the warp threads thereof, and stitching around said respective buttonholes passing through both of said plies of material and through said lining and said section and securely attaching all of said parts together around said buttonholes.

3. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band composed of inner and outer plies and an interposed lining all of textile fabric having longitudinal threads extending approximately parallel with the lower edge of the collar band and having transverse threads extending vertically across the collar band, a section of textile fabric attached to said lining and having the warp and woof threads thereof inclined and extending obliquely across said longitudinal and transverse threads adjacent to one end of the collar band, said one end of the collar band having button holes cut through said inner and outer plies and said lining obliquely across said longitudinal and vertical threads and cut through said section parallel with the warp threads thereof, and a button permanently attached to the opposite end of the collar band approximately the same distance from the lower edge of the collar band as the centers of said buttonholes.

l. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band composed of inner and outer plies and an interposed lining all of textile fabric having longitudinal threads extending approximately parallel with the lower edge of the collar band and having transverse threads extending vertically across the collar band, a section of textile fabric attached to said lining and having the warp and woof threads thereof inclined and extending obliquely across said longitudinal and transverse threads adjacent to one end of the collar band, said one end of the collar band having buttonholes out;

through said inner and outer plies and said lining obliquely across said longitudinal and vertical threads and cut through said section parallel with the warp threads thereof, stitching around said respective buttonholes passing through both of 1 of the collar band approximately the same distance from the lower edge of the collar band as the centers of said buttonholes.

5. A shirt having detachable edges, a collar band composed of inner and outer plies and an interposed lining all of textile fabric having longitudinal threads extending approximately parallel with the lower edge of the collar band and having transverse threads extending vertically across the collar band, a section of textile fabric attached to said lining and having the warp and woof threads thereof inclined and extending obliquely across said longitudinal and transverse threads adjacent to one end of the collar band, said one end of the collar band having buttonholes cut through said inner and outer plies and said lining obliquely across said longitudinal and vertical threads and cut through said section parallel with the warp threads thereof, stitching around said respective buttonholes passing through both of said plies of material and through said lining and said section and securely attaching all of said'parts together around said buttonholes, a similar section of textile fabric attached to said lining adjacent to the opposite end of the collar band and having its warp and woof threads extending obliquely across said longitudinal and transverse threads of said plies and said lining, a button, and stitching attaching said button to said collar band and passing through said plies and said lining and said last named section at approximately the same distance from the lower edge of the collar band as the middles of said buttonholes.

WILTON RUBINSTEIN. 

